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This newsletter from The Atlantic, published on July 13, 2025, at 11:00:56 AM, offers a curated selection of articles from its Culture desk, covering a range of societal and personal topics. The edition, titled "Six Weekend Stories," aims to guide readers through significant stories, introduce new ideas, and...
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Read more about the great cousin decline, 10 books The Atlantic’s Culture desk read too late, and more.Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / GettyThis is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.
Sign up for it here.Spend time with stories about the bizarre relationship of a “work wife” and a “work husband,” the great cousin decline, and more.The Great Cousin DeclineFamilies are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one. (From 2023)By Faith HillI See Your Smartphone-Addicted LifeI’ve never owned the device, and I’m not sure I ever want to.
By Franklin SchneiderThe Books We Read Too Late—And That You Should Read NowOne of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner. (From 2022)By The Atlantic Culture DeskThe Bizarre Relationship of a “Work Wife” and a “Work Husband”The work marriage is a strange response to our anxieties about mixed-gender friendships, heightened by the norms of a professional environment.
(From 2023)By Stephanie H. MurrayAmerica’s Coming Smoke EpidemicThe research on what smoke does to a body is just beginning.By Zoë SchlangerThe Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You AreThere are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age. (From 2023)By Jennifer SeniorThe Week AheadEddington, a drama-comedy by Ari Aster about a standoff between a mayor and a local sheriff (in theaters Friday) Season 7 finale of Love Island USA, a reality-TV show with a $100,000 prize (premieres tonight on Peacock) A Flower Traveled in My Blood, by Haley Cohen Gilliland, a deeply reported new book about Argentina’s “disappeared” (out Tuesday)EssayIllustration by Lucy Murray WillisHe Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.
S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.By Andrew AoyamaJoseph Kurihara watched the furniture pile higher and higher on the streets of Terminal Island. Tables and chairs, mattresses and bed frames, refrigerators and radio consoles had been dragged into alleyways and arranged in haphazard stacks. It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.
S. Navy had given the island’s residents 48 hours to pack up and leave … A week earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing military commanders to designate areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” The order made no mention of race, but its target was clear: people who were ethnically Japanese.
Read the full article.More in CultureCatch Up on The Atlantic Photo AlbumSolar panels cover hillsides in China’s northern Hebei province. (Greg Baker / AFP / Getty)As the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues making huge investments in the industry.
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This newsletter from The Atlantic, published on July 13, 2025, at 11:00:56 AM, offers a curated selection of articles from its Culture desk, covering a range of societal and personal topics. The edition, titled "Six Weekend Stories," aims to guide readers through significant stories, introduce new ideas, and...
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Read more about the great cousin decline, 10 books The Atlantic’s Culture desk read too late, and more.Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / GettyThis is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.
Sign up for it here.Spend time with stories about the bizarre relationship of a “work wife” and a “work husband,” the great cousin decline, and more.The Great Cousin DeclineFamilies are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one. (From 2023)By Faith HillI See Your Smartphone-Addicted LifeI’ve never owned the device, and I’m not sure I ever want to.
By Franklin SchneiderThe Books We Read Too Late—And That You Should Read NowOne of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner. (From 2022)By The Atlantic Culture DeskThe Bizarre Relationship of a “Work Wife” and a “Work Husband”The work marriage is a strange response to our anxieties about mixed-gender friendships, heightened by the norms of a professional environment.
(From 2023)By Stephanie H. MurrayAmerica’s Coming Smoke EpidemicThe research on what smoke does to a body is just beginning.By Zoë SchlangerThe Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You AreThere are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age. (From 2023)By Jennifer SeniorThe Week AheadEddington, a drama-comedy by Ari Aster about a standoff between a mayor and a local sheriff (in theaters Friday) Season 7 finale of Love Island USA, a reality-TV show with a $100,000 prize (premieres tonight on Peacock) A Flower Traveled in My Blood, by Haley Cohen Gilliland, a deeply reported new book about Argentina’s “disappeared” (out Tuesday)EssayIllustration by Lucy Murray WillisHe Spent His Life Trying to Prove That He Was a Loyal U.
S. Citizen. It Wasn’t Enough.By Andrew AoyamaJoseph Kurihara watched the furniture pile higher and higher on the streets of Terminal Island. Tables and chairs, mattresses and bed frames, refrigerators and radio consoles had been dragged into alleyways and arranged in haphazard stacks. It was February 25, 1942, two and a half months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the U.
S. Navy had given the island’s residents 48 hours to pack up and leave … A week earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing military commanders to designate areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” The order made no mention of race, but its target was clear: people who were ethnically Japanese.
Read the full article.More in CultureCatch Up on The Atlantic Photo AlbumSolar panels cover hillsides in China’s northern Hebei province. (Greg Baker / AFP / Getty)As the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues making huge investments in the industry.
Take a look at the scale of China’s solar-power projects.Play our daily crossword.Explore all of our newsletters.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.
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